A Facile, Low-Cost Plasma Etching Method for Achieving Size Controlled Non-Close-Packed Monolayer Arrays of Polystyrene Nano-Spheres
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
4.1. Effects of Assisting Gas
4.2. Fabricating Silicon Nanowires
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Chen, Y.; Shi, D.; Chen, Y.; Chen, X.; Gao, J.; Zhao, N.; Wong, C.-P. A Facile, Low-Cost Plasma Etching Method for Achieving Size Controlled Non-Close-Packed Monolayer Arrays of Polystyrene Nano-Spheres. Nanomaterials 2019, 9, 605. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9040605
Chen Y, Shi D, Chen Y, Chen X, Gao J, Zhao N, Wong C-P. A Facile, Low-Cost Plasma Etching Method for Achieving Size Controlled Non-Close-Packed Monolayer Arrays of Polystyrene Nano-Spheres. Nanomaterials. 2019; 9(4):605. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9040605
Chicago/Turabian StyleChen, Yun, Dachuang Shi, Yanhui Chen, Xun Chen, Jian Gao, Ni Zhao, and Ching-Ping Wong. 2019. "A Facile, Low-Cost Plasma Etching Method for Achieving Size Controlled Non-Close-Packed Monolayer Arrays of Polystyrene Nano-Spheres" Nanomaterials 9, no. 4: 605. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano9040605